Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year

Check all the winners of Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year.
Year Winner Winner Work
2010 Michael R. Young Managing a Dental Practice: The Genghis Khan Way
2009 Daina Taimina Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes
(Mathematical book featuring crocheted hyperbolic planes)
2008 Philip M. Parker The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais
(Computer-generated combination of boilerplate text and public-domain data)
2007 Big Boom If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs
(A self-help book written by a man for the benefit of women.)
2006 Julian Montague The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
(About how to identify abandoned shopping carts.)
2005 Gary Leon Hill People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It
(About dead spirits who took up residence in bodies that did not belong to them.)
2004 Rick Pelicano Bombproof Your Horse
(Full title Bombproof Your Horse: Teach Your Horse to Be Confident, Obedient, and Safe, No Matter What You Encounter.[31])
Lauren Tjaden Bombproof Your Horse
(Full title Bombproof Your Horse: Teach Your Horse to Be Confident, Obedient, and Safe, No Matter What You Encounter.[31])
2003 Alisa Surkis The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
(Eight stories in a pastiche of dime novel styles from different decades, each involving lesbian romance and horses.[30])
Monica Nolan The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
(Eight stories in a pastiche of dime novel styles from different decades, each involving lesbian romance and horses.[30])
2002 Kaz Cooke Living with Crazy Buttocks
(Humorous essays on contemporary culture, including female body image and other topics)
2001 Gerard Forlin Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service
(About corporate manslaughter, i.e. corporate liability for manslaughter.)
2000 Institution of Mechanical Engineers High Performance Stiffened Structures
(About stiffness in engineering.)
1999 Charles H. Stirton Weeds in a Changing World: British Crop Protection Council Symposium Proceedings No. 64
1998 Gareth Williams Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding: New Opportunities to Widen the Use of Straw
1997 Alex Comfort The Joy of Sex
(Pocket edition of The Joy of Sex.)
1996 Derek Willan Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
(Cancellation numbers in the Hellenic Post.)
1995 Douglas Davies Reusing Old Graves
(About reusing old graves.)
Alastair Shaw Reusing Old Graves
(About reusing old graves.)
1994 C. C. Stanley Highlights in the History of Concrete
(About the history of concrete.)
1993 Charles J. Bareis American Bottom Archaeology
(Full title American Bottom Archaeology: A Summary of the FAI-270 Project Contribution to the Culture History of the Mississippi River Valley.[25])
James W. Porter American Bottom Archaeology
(Full title American Bottom Archaeology: A Summary of the FAI-270 Project Contribution to the Culture History of the Mississippi River Valley.[25])
1992 John W. Trimmer How to Avoid Huge Ships
(Advice to pleasure boat sailors on the dangers of shipping lanes)
1990 Patrick Califia Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual
(A guide to BDSM and safe sex.)
1989 Kathleen Meyer How to Shit in the Woods
(About responsible treatment of one's human waste in wilderness areas.)
1988 Elaine Dee Versailles: The View From Sweden
(Catalogue of an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum on the influence of French Baroque and Classicism on design in contemporary Sweden.[22])
Guy Walton Versailles: The View From Sweden
(Catalogue of an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum on the influence of French Baroque and Classicism on design in contemporary Sweden.[22])
1986 Glenn C. Ellenbogen Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
(Humorous and parody articles about psychiatry.)
1985 Donald L. Wilson Natural bust enlargement with total mind power: How to use the other 90 % of your mind to increase the size of your breasts
(About bust enlargement through positive thinking.)
1984 C. Anne Wilson The book of marmalade
(About the history of marmalade.)
1983 Alexander Tselikov The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling
(About rolling as a metalworking technique.)
G. S. Nikitin The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling
(About rolling as a metalworking technique.)
S. E. Rokotyan The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling
(About rolling as a metalworking technique.)
1982 Various Authors Population and Other Problems: Family Planning, Housing 1,000 million, Labour Employment
(About the demographics of the People's Republic of China.)
1981 Various Authors Last Chance at Love - Terminal Romances
1980 Dennis Nolan The joy of chickens
(About breeds of chicken.)
1979 Barbara Sherman Heyl The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution
1978 Various Authors Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice
(Studies on uses of furless laboratory mice.)